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This Week: 08-29-24

THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta August 29, 2024 Front Page Trustees Pondering Culverts, ‘Heroes’ Banners, Sign Law Parties Meet To Consider Uses for, Conservation of Former Boy Scout Camp County Offers Advice on Safe Bat Handling Inside Oneonta’s Theis Preps Paris Paralympics Team for Race Group Discusses Spay/Neuter, Solutions to Unwanted Pet Problem Non-lead Ammo Rebate Offered to Deer Hunters Farmers’ Museum Prepares for Seasonal Favorite Harvest Festival News Briefs News Briefs: August 29, 2024 Summer…

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Bound Volumes: August 29, 2024

160 YEARS AGO
A returned soldier of the Sixteenth Connecticut regiment says that our soldiers who are prisoners at Andersonville, S.C. number no fewer than 12,000; that they are confined in an open field bare of all trees or shrubbery; and that, in these dog-day heats they are suffering severely. A similar account is given of a still larger number of Union prisoners confined in Georgia, where large numbers are dying from exposure, lack of food and proper attendance.
August 26, 1864…

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Hometown History: August 29, 2024

90 YEARS AGO
One hundred years old today, Mrs. Melissa Brooks of 26 State Street, can look back on a century of real progress. She has seen all modes of travel from the ox-cart to the airplane and has used various types of home illumination from dipped candles to electric lights. As a little girl she was carried to school on her father’s back. The telegraph, the telephone and the radio have made communication possible in ways never dreamed of. As…

Happenin’ Otsego: 08-29-24

FINALE—5:15 p.m. “After Work Entertainment in Downtown Oneonta.” The Killdeer Trio. Free. Held Thursdays through 8/29. Muller Plaza, Oneonta. (719) 246-5593 or visit https://www.facebook.com/oneontadowntownrenaissance…